Packing case for garments



Pateifitedy June z3, 1925ivk Y JOHN THOMAS B'ATfrsfOF iiNeELE CALiiaoaiviA` f l Appiicatioafiied Januaiy 24, 1924,. serial N6. 688,129.

vT0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN THOMAS BAr'rs,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of'Los Angeles 5 and State of California, have invented new and useful Impro for Garments, of specification.

venients in Packing Cases `which the following is a The present invention relates to packing and shipping cases for garments; object is to provide proved means for therein against movement.

and its such a case having imholding the garments The present invention thus involves certainl additions to,

or improvements those shown in my in certain respects over,

Patents issued April 3, 1923 and No.4 1,455,063 issued May 15, 1923.

These and any` other objects hereinafter appearing are attained-by, and the invention finds preferable embodiment in, the structure hereinafter particularly described in the body of this specification and illustrated by the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1v is a packing and shipping case for garments, cover being lifted Figure 2 is a t in which view in perspective of a the op plan view thereof, the

cover being removed and garments on garment hangers being shown therein;

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view of the same takenv on line 3-3 `of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same taken on line 4 4 of Figure 2,

the garments not and v Figure 5 is a parts (much, enlarged) of Figure 4.

appearing in this view;

sectional view of certain taken on line 5,5

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated by the drawings, a packing and shipping case having rectangular sides 1, 1,

cover 2, bottom v3 and ends 4, Garment Y hangers shoulder portions 4, is shown. 5 are inserted into the of the garments 6 in the usual manner and are held on supporting rods 7 inside the 4, 4 respectively,

case and adjacent its ends by their sustaining mem-Y bers or hooks 8 hooked around said rods or bers adap passed over the ends thereof.

To prevent the garments thus packed in the case from swinging or slipping ysidewise, i. e., toward either and swinging their'han ing said hangers in posi-y for securely hold side 1 of the case, ers with them, and

tion, the supporting ro but securely clamped to with the hooks 8 between them.

ds 7 are detachably the ends of the case,

Such

clamping means arev preferably the screw bolts 10, extending through the supporting rods 7 and the ends 4 resiiiectively of the having on their inner ends. wing case, and l nuts 11 whereby such clampi The tained.

the

swinging of ng action is atgarment hangers about the longitudinal axes of the supporting rods is further and very posivented by the non-turnable relatively pre tion of these hooks to the rods on they are carried.

tion is de the hooks sirably which This non-turnable relaaccomplished by formingr with a middle portion 12 and opposite side portions 13, 14 extending larly therefrom. The supporti angung rods 7 cross-sectionally correspond to these portions and are received more or less fittingly between them, whereby the hooks are held against turning about the supporting rods,

ing the garments at theirshoulder portions i from crushing together or shifting in said' thereby from shifting 12 of the hooks being tightly een the rods 7 and the ends of the nuts 11 are tightly screwed s the hangers and the garin Vthe direction and rubbing against each other in the shippi The invention being ng of lthe cases.

intendedto be pointed out in the claims, vis not to be liniited to or particular by details of construction embodiment thereof of the illustrated bythe drawings or hereinbefore described.

I claim 1. Ina

garment packing case: a

.plurality of garment hangers having sustaining members adapted to be removably supporting porting Lro means for case with tween.

2. In a of garment hangers having s rod hereinafter named;

held on the a supclamping the rodY sidewise to the said members. clamped therebegarme ted to be removably held ntpacking case: a plurality ustaining meinon the supporting rod hereinafter named, nonturnably the case; a t

the suppo and provi rting rod an ded with a nut for clampi thereon; a supporting rod inside hreaded bolt extending through d a wall of the case ng the d inside the case; adjustable V rocl sidewise to said Wall with said members therebetween.

3. In a garment packing oase: a plurality of garment hangers having sustaining mem- 5 bers adapted to be removably held on the supporting rod hereinafter named; a supporting rocl insiderthe ease; means extending through the' supporting rod for Clamping the rod sidewse to the case With said members therebetween.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles, California, this 16 clay of January 1924.

JOI-IN THOMAS BATTS. 

